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Quote from deathgod2024»

gonzo2095 is right it is all about chance. About 2 days after I posted this I got all the wither skulls in one day with my looting 3 iron sword.

Quote from thewicketn9ne»

I read that if you aim at their heads while killing the Wither Skeleton they are more likely to drop the Wither skull

support!

Quote from XxSpecTre»

because you dont read boy this was created in TU22 now where in TU31 do you even read the title? its TU22! not Tu31 lol
so its not working now because where in the 1.8.8 update a lot of things have changed now pls read the title what TU22 means...

Quote from zarfbloot»

Does it have any temples? (desert, jungle, or ocean)

To my understanding an update to one of the consoles is mirrored by the same update across all consoles, with the exception of some specific bug fixes which might only be presented in a specific console.

So to answer your questions Yes, regardless of console platform which the screenshot appears, all consoles will be given the same update.

Secondly, with regards to specifically Guardian fish the one from the first screen, couldn't think of a scenario where they would tease a specific component of a updated feature without providing the entire feature, unless they only added the Guardian as a creative item, which I still have a hard timing rationalizing. My guess is that yes we will see the full enchilada, from Ocean monument / Prismatine blocks / Sea Lanterns etc.

Lastly, while I do see a potential for servers (down the road, plus did you see the new tab at the top of the mmain forum page? SERVERS ) on apersonal level I would have a hard time entering in a string of info given the current input system without a keyboard.

Quote from rollawaythedew»

For whatever mob's head you wish to obtain, that mob must be killed by a charged creeper's explosion. So as Drivethru said you need a charged creeper to explode and land the killing blow on a normal creeper for it to drop. Also, a charged creeper doesn't have to be hit by the lightning directly to be charged, but within 3-4 blocks of the creeper. Still "lottery" odds tho I would guess-timate

Looks like endermites and new flowers.

Screen shot from a PS Vita

Confirmed:

Guardian Mob
Mesa Biome
Granite
Slime Block
Mutton
New Fish

Source 4j twitter feed.

Quote from aledvojnik2»

PC version of miinecraft has 1. more updates 2. more blocks 3. bug fixes

So im thinking this.. will we EVER have command blocks , slime blocks.. etc?

Quote from Sgt_Buttscratch»

Numbers playing have dropped, easy ways to monitor this.....
"Several updates", or 1 LOL, we have had bugfixes and minor additions since last December, Fact.
Also 2 feature updates is far less than most games. Fact.

I did take a 3 month break, come back to the same game I was playing 10 months ago... They make A LOT of money, more than most independent companies could dream of, yet they have chose rather than to be humble, they will instead pull an EA.

Have Villagers SELL Melons, Pumpkins, Cocoa Beans, and other biome dependant items for when your world doesn't generate a biome that they spawn in naturally.

Been working on a world since the release of TU32 only to find out that I don't have a jungle and no mineshafts to find any Water Melons. I've got a lot of work done in this world and it's really upsetting that I can't use Melons or Cocoa Beans.

Villagers will currently BUY melons, but they don't SELL them. Make it a Farmer, as it would be a more logical choice.

Can't make Potion of Healing without Melons!!!

Personally I don't see an issue with the standard hostile mob cap, but I do have issues with both entity and passive mob counts including villagers. Lets take a moment to look at these in details and how they impact gameplay.

First lets look at entities, the issue here is that anything that is dropped is an entity, and its shared with item frames as well. Sure items 'merge', and I believe the max count is somewhere around 200 entities, but this is a serious joke. 200 sounds like a lot, buts its seriously limiting, if one has say 20 or so item frames, you already down to 180 entities, Now lets say you want to use a splash potion to kill off a good number of mobs, your going to loose out on exp and or drops, because each exp orb is a entity, they don't merge, ect. Very few of us use splash potions to kill numbers of mobs just because of this reason. In essence you get more exp killing them off one by one, rather then a group, so controlled TNT isn't used, ect. This count needs at least doubled, if not tripled.

Passive mobs, personally i feel that there really shouldn't be a count on this, and that the game should take a more PC approach, where it has a chance to spawn animals when the chunk is created, after that its extremely low chance of spawning animals. This would actually encourage breeding, and taking care not to kill off all the animals around us. Right now I don't run any type of animal farm other then sheep simply because its way to easy to run around for 5 minutes killing pigs/cows/chickens to get enough meat to last a couple of days. I think if people want to have a 500 cow farm then let them. 4J has taken it upon themselves to say no we won't let you lag your game with too many animals. We should have this choice and most players know that if the game is lagging because they have too many animals they'll kill a bunch off. Point is let us make the choice of how many passives we wish to keep. Yes the above alters gameplay but I think its for the best, and i think most will agree.

Villagers count of 50 is another joke, it needs at least doubled, if not tripled. I understand that infinite village breeding can take place, but I have tested worlds with more then 800 villagers, and the xbox one handled them with next to no lag. This test was also coupled with a 64 stacked village producing iron golems, where i had over 200 iron golems. (800 villagers, 200 iron golems), and no noticeable lag. (2 players). The the console can defiantly handle increased villagers/golems.

In respects to hostile mob limits, what has to take place is no so much a bump to the count, but more so fixed rates of spawn. The spawn rates of changed considerably, and this has seriously slowed down farms efficiency. If one looks at say an efficient endermen farm, its not hard to tell that the number of endermen isn't the issue, its the time it takes for the farm to actually restalk itself. I've done tests using the same farm on the PC/xbox one. The minute I begin killing off the endermen on the PC, they are very quickly replaced with new endermen, where the xbox one seems to take nearly 4x longer to spawn in additional endermen. I believe this is because back several versions (when witches were introduced and neither fortresses), 4J didn't use structure data, and this caused witches/neither fortresses to only work the first time they were loaded, after that they stopped working, in order to fix this they needed to alter the mob spawn code, and this additional code caused alot of overhead, and thus they at least halved (if not quartered) the speed it used to run at. Going back to endermen farms I can remember having a hard time killing off the endermen within my farm, for as quickly as I killed them off they were replaced with new ones, this simply isn't the case now.

Now spawners on the other hand are a total different case. On the PC, spawners can go above and beyond the mob count, in fact if left unchecked these spawners can cause serious lag. I once accidentally left for 4 hours and came back there were over 3000 mobs, so bad was the lag the only way for me to solve it was to switch to peaceful. If they wish to impose a cap, spawners should have the option to go above and beyond it, so if they maintained the 75 mob limit, spawners should allow that limit to be 2x what it is, (IMHO)

Anyhow sorry about the wall of text, but these are just my thoughts.